DRIVING THE DAY: DOJ DETAILS IP ENFORCEMENT – U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and ICE Director John Morton are holding a press conference this morning at DOJ where the two will announce “an intellectual property enforcement action,” according to the release. This comes on the heels of ICE seizing the Web addresses of several file-sharing websites late last week – more on that below. ICE officials declined to comment on the websites that were taken down.

SCOOP: NETCOALITION OPPOSING COMCAST-NBC MERGER – Staking its opposition to the Comcast-NBC deal today is NetCoalition, whose trustees include Bloomberg, Google, Yahoo and IAC/InterActive Corp. Specifically, the coalition is signing onto the larger effort spearheaded by the Coalition for the Competition in Media, which represents 24 other groups and companies that think regulators ought to block the deal.

From NetCoalition Exec. Director Markham Erickson: “The Internet remains one of the most dynamic forces in our economy, one that provides choice and access to millions of users worldwide. This merger puts too much of that resource in too few hands. We are concerned this merger will create a vertically and horizontally integrated media behemoth that will smother competition, diminish choice, and reduce broadband network investment all while raising prices for consumers.”

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HAPPENING TODAY: GWB TO FB – The former president is in Palo Alto today to visit Facebook and hold a 2 p.m. PT live chat on his new book, “Decision Points.” We're told Mark Zuckerberg and General Counsel Ted Ullyot (a former Bush W.H. staffer) will lead the Q&A, which will be broadcast on Facebook Live. It's the only stop the former president is making in the Bay Area as he promotes his new memoir. Keep this link handy: http://on.fb.me/ezzPOx

BUZZ: WIKILEAKS DOCU-DROP SPOTLIGHTS GOOGLE HACKING – Much will be said this week about the more than 250,000 once-secret State Dept. cables made public by WikiLeaks on Sunday. But of particular interest to the tech community will be the tidbit on Google and the high-profile hacking of its e-mail system earlier this year, believed to have originated in China. As POLITICO extrapolates from the leaks: “A Chinese contact tipped off the U.S. embassy in Beijing that China’s Politburo OK'd a huge effort to hack and eavesdrop on Google computers as part of a nearly decade-long cyber-sabotage effort aimed at American companies and supporters of the Dalai Lama.”

That tidbit could reignite the conversation over Internet freedom – particularly on Capitol Hill, where some lawmakers from both parties have been brooding over legislation for months. Google, however, was unavailable for comment this weekend. (More from this weekend’s story: http://politi.co/fLM3yL)

Good Monday morning, welcome back to Morning Tech. Money can't buy you love, but it can certainly buy you Beatles songs on iTunes – as plenty of music lovers have already discovered. In fact, Billboard reports that users have downloaded 450,000 albums and 2 million songs just since the Beatles catalog went live on iTunes on Nov. 16. That may sound like a lot, but Billboard notes it may be a matter of perspective: Fans of Taylor Swift, for example, downloaded 278,000 copies of her third album just in first-week sales too. (Hat tip: http://bit.ly/icXQVl )

HAPPENING THIS WEEK: ACTA NEGOTIATORS CLEAN UP LANGUAGE – Participants in the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement negotiations are meeting down under in Sydney this week to conduct a legal scrub of the agreement, which aims to combat IP infringement worldwide. Participants, which include the U.S., EU and South Korea, are meeting Nov. 30 to Dec. 3, according to the European Parliament. A USTR spokeswoman confirmed the legal scrub will be taking place and said staff will be attending for the United States. The final text of ACTA was released two weeks ago and was criticized by public advocacy groups for being too broad.

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MEANWHILE, PRIVACY RETURNS TO CENTER STAGE – Members will awaken from their tryptophan-induced comas this week for the beginning of a blitz-paced, lame-duck session. The marquee tech hearing is a “Do Not Track” inquiry at Chairman Bobby Rush's consumer protection subcommittee, which could precede the release of the much-anticipated FTC privacy report. No word yet on witnesses, but it has been noticed for Thursday a.m.

Also this week: The FCC tackles a number of issues related to spectrum at its Nov. 30 open meeting ... The FTC’s David Vladeck and NTIA's Daniel Weitzner are on hand for Consumer Watchdog's Wednesday, Dec. 1, online privacy forum . . . The Senate Commerce Committee discusses implementation of the NASA authorization at a Wednesday hearing ... The administration tackles privacy and security issues related to personal health records at a daylong, Friday forum, hosted by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.

AND MARK YOUR CALENDARS – The FCC has until Nov. 30 to circulate a proposal on net neutrality, assuming it plans to broach the issue at its December open meeting as some sources expect.

GORMAN: CYBER CHALLENGES REMAIN – We caught up last week with Pat Gorman, formerly the assistant director of national intel and now the top cyber guru at Booz Allen Hamilton. While he said the administration, in particular, has made great progress in addressing cybersecurity, he told us a few challenges remain – Congress, in particular. “I think the cyber challenge is the same with the homeland security challenge in Congress,” he said. “A new mission has emerged, but Congress is still structured around old committees and subcommittees.” That's meant a number of panels – too many, by some measures – have a say on whatever reform reaches the chamber floor, and later, how it is funded, Gorman told MT.

The budget process could present another obstacle for reform. Diametric forces currently tug at Washington – one that would see new money set aside for cybersecurity, another that would see the federal government trim excess spending and clamp down on new programs. But Gorman told MT a key means of overcoming any institutional budget pressure would be the private sector. “We've been here before,” he said, referencing the federal government has long taken a “consortia approach” to top issues, and could do the same for cybersecurity. “You have to start leveraging the private sector in this,” added Gorman, whose company does considerable work in that area.

ICYMI: U.S. CRACKS DOWN ON PIRACY HAVENS – From the NYT: “In what appears to be the latest phase of a far-reaching federal crackdown on online piracy of music and movies, the Web addresses of a number of sites that facilitate illegal file-sharing were seized this week by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a division of the Department of Homeland Security. ... The new seizures also come as a new bill, the Combating Online Infringements and Counterfeits Act, is making its way through Congress. The bill, which was approved by a Senate committee last week, would allow the government to shut down sites that are ‘dedicated to infringing activities.’” MORE: http://nyti.ms/dOTbmb

GOOGLE TRAVEL BID HITS TURBULENCE – “Google is making a play for your travel dollars, but first it has to clear security. The search giant is looking to break into the travel business and compete with Orbitz, CheapTickets, Travelocity and the like. To do it, Google is trying to purchase ITA Software, a company that provides the back-end flight search capabilities to many of those sites. But Google first must persuade Washington regulators to approve the $700 million deal, a feat nearly as difficult as connecting through O'Hare Airport on Thanksgiving weekend.” MORE: http://politi.co/eBeF69

SPRINT ROLLS OUT 4G IN D.C. – The D.C.-Maryland-Virginia area now has access to 4G Sprint coverage, the company announced late Sunday night. That brings the total number of markets in which the service is available to 68. “We are continuing to deliver on our commitment to serve our customers by rolling out 4G in more cities in 2010,” said Brian Hedlund, Sprint’s business sales director. “Customers in D.C., Maryland and Virginia are hungry for the power and speed that 4G provides and today they have it.”

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NYT FRONT PAGE: GOOGLE GRAPPLES with recent trickling out of top company talent: http://nyti.ms/eHXwpG (NOTABLE STAT, as pointed out by the NYT: “At least 142 of Facebook’s employees came from Google.”)

CAROL BARTZ is well known for Autodesk, but her current post at Yahoo has proven challenging, reports Bloomberg: http://bit.ly/fawdUJ

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